Tan Cheng Bock Quotes

I learned more in 11 months in running for president than I did in 12 years of school.

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

Running for office is not easy. It's not enough to want it.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

[On political campaigns:] Get an elbow, give an elbow.

If you can’t run against a political candidate, run against his campaign manager.

Campaigns are about adjustments.

I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.

For a politician, the long term is between now and the next election.

[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, who has given obnoxiousness a new definition in his personal behavior, oftentimes in his dealings with the press, had a very good point.

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

I definitely learned about the inner workings of campaigns enough to know that I'm glad that I'm not in politics.

I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience.

I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.

The hardest thing about a presidential election is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

The people who run campaigns today have more iron control over the campaign than they did 20 or 30 years ago.